In southern Delaware, the First State Pickleball Club (FSPC) and Lighthouse Pickleball are offering an innovative new type of ladder experience that actually uses your rating in DUPR as the ladder that you climb! Your DUPR rating is updated after every game you play, and it dynamically affects your court assignment for your next game. Partners and opponents are assigned automatically.
If you don’t have a rating in DUPR yet, you will play by using your self-rating just for your initial ranking, and then you will get an actual rating in DUPR as soon as the scores from your first game are entered. Let me know and I will add you to a ladder event to bypass the registration restriction that requires players to have a rating in DUPR.
Ladder events are offered on Saturdays at 10:30am on the beautiful courts at Clayton Elementary in Frankford, DE. You can join anytime. There is a one-time fee of $30 to join the FSPC (annual membership), and then you pay just $10 per ladder event when you register for just the events that you want.
These ladder events are fully automated by using the DuprPlay™ event software which handles time-keeping, scoring-keeping, submitting scores to DUPR, assigning byes to players based on their Stamina preferences, and informing each player if they have a bye, or informing them of their assigned court, partner, opponents, and serve/receive/side details.
Registration
Here are the steps to register. For help, contact [email protected]
- Join the First State Pickleball Club ($30 annual membership).
- Install the DUPR app on your phone from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.
- In the DUPR app, click on the “Clubs” tab, search for the “Lighthouse Pickleball” club, and join it.
- Join the Lighthouse Pickleball network within the GPN web app.
- In the GPN web app, click on your “Account” button in the upper-right corner, click on “Settings & Privacy“, look for the “Connect to DUPR” settings, and use the button there to link your GPN account to your DUPR account.
- Join the FSPC DUPR Play Ladder Group within the GPN web app. You must first join the FSPC (see step 1) in order to be approved to join this group. Only after you are approved into the group by an FSPC admin, proceed to the next step.
- On the FSPC DUPR Play Ladder Group page, scroll down to the “Events Calendar” section, click on a ladder event that you want to join, and click on “Yes” to indicate that you want to attend ($10). If you later decide that you will not attend, just return to the same event page and click on “No” (you will be sent a refund after the event if you paid but did not attend).
Event Details
- Play games only with the players who have DUPR ratings close to your own rating
- Courts, partners, and opponents are assigned automatically to create skill matched games with varying partners who are near your rating level
- Scores are entered into DUPR as club matches, which count fully, the same as tournament matches
- Win games to improve your rating in DUPR and climb the rating ladder to play up
- Choose your own stamina preference so you can get a break when/if you need it
- Provided: Healthy snacks, filtered ice water, ice packs, first aid kit, and two fresh pickleballs per court
- Win in the last game period to win a pickleball from your court to take home
- Choose your own Stamina preference so you can get a break when/if you need it
- Play using rally scoring to 21, win by 2, switch sides at 11
- Freeze at 20 for the leading team and at 18 for the trailing team
- Each game is limited to 15 mins, so if the timer runs out, then complete the current rally
- If tied when the game period ends, play just one more rally, which will decide the game winner